(Wichita
Falls, Texas)  Team penning just got a new look to a fairly
new game in the horse industry as the United States Team Penning
Association (USTPA) releases its new corporate logo today.

The
release of our new logo is just the first step in our new strategic
marketing plan designed to grow this sport, said USPTA President
Ronnie Gebauer. The logo represents what we believe to be
the most critical part of the sport, and that is the team work needed
in penning three head of cattle.

With
a design communicating the high energy of this fast-paced sport
and reminiscent of other professional sport logos, the new logo
depicts the letters USTPA and the words United
States Team Penning Association, with three riders, both men
and women, moving as a unit through the logo. Team penning requires
a team of three riders to select three like-numbered cattle from
a herd of 30 and move them to a small pen at the opposite end of
the arena within as little as a sixty second time period. Cattle
in the herd are numbered 0 to 9, with three cattle bearing each
of those numbers. A number glued to their backs indicates the selected
cattle.

The
USTPA, the largest not-for-profit team penning association in North
America, represents a membership of more than 6,000 team penning
enthusiasts and manages, through USTPA Productions, team pennings
that offer more than $1.2 million in cash and prizes annually.